Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
250 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987

AT 230 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
MOVING INTO THE LAKE CHARLES AREA FROM THE WEST.

THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AROUND THE LAKE CHARLES AREA.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM LEESVILLE TO NORTHWEST
OF CROWLEY AND IN VERMILION PARISH...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...MOVING
OVER VERMILION BAY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SHOWERS WERE INDICATED AROUND ALEXANDRIA.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
340 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987

AT 325 PM...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY
WINDS WAS LOCATED IN VERMILION PARISH...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH INTO THE COASTAL WATERS JUST SOUTH OF
VERMILION BAY.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS INCREASED IN INTENSITY IN NORTH LOUISIANA BETWEEN
MANSFIELD AND WINNFIELD MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED AROUND LAKE CHARLES MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL STATEMENT UNLESS THUNDERSTORMS
REINTENSIFY.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
500PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987

    ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST HARDIN COUNTY...

THE TOWNS OF VOTAW, THICKET, AND SARATOGA CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINS
FOR THE NEXT ONE TO POSSIBLY TWO HOURS.  RAINFALL TOTALS COULD RANGE
FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES.

A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IS DRIFTING SOUTH OUT OF POLK COUNTY AT
500 PM.  WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES ONLY HEAVY RAIN IN THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

MOTORISTS SHOULD BE VERY CAUTIOUS AS THE HEAVY RAINS WILL GREATLY
REDUCE THE VISIBILITY...AND CAUSE SOME TEMPORARY FLOODING OF LOW
SPOTS ALONG THE ROADS, ESPECIALLY UNDERPASSES.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
525 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987

AT 525 PM...A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED
OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF VERNON PARISH DURING THE PAST HOUR.  OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA 10 MILES EAST OF PORT
ARTHUR AND ALONG THE COAST SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST OF WHITE LAKE.

OTHERWISE OVER LOUISIANA PATCHES OF RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE
SHOWN FROM NEAR MANY TO EAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO SOUTH OF ATCHAFALAYA BAY
TO NEAR SABINE.

OVER EAST TEXAS..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND PATCHES OF RAIN WERE SHOWN
FROM PORT ARTHUR TO TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR AND WESTWARD TO WEST OF
LUFKIN AND CONROEJ.

LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS SHOWN.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
645 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987

AT 625 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SOME
GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WERE SHOWN FROM NORTHEAST OF DE RIDDER TO WEST OF
LEESVILLE AND WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 7 MPH

PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM SOUTHERN
TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO NATCHITOCHES AND SOUTHEAST TO THE MORGAN CITY
AREA.

OVER EAST TEXqAS..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM PORT ARTHUR TO
LUFKIN TO SAN AUGUSTINE.  PATCHES OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN
FROM SABINE TO WEL NORTH OF SAN AUGUSTINE AND WEST TO WELL WEST OF
LAKE LIVINGSTON.  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 7 MPH.